Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can ...

Rethinking the Underlying Trigger of Quasar Jets Building on the groundbreaking 2020 discovery of newborn jets in several ...

Astronomers have observed over a thousand of them to date; some come from sources that repeatedly emit FRBs, while others ...

Dec. 20, 2024 — One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the Universe is expanding. For the ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Infrared observations help astronomers uncover hundreds of obscured supermassive black holes, reshaping cosmic understanding.

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered mysterious "little red dots" scattered across the early universe. Could these ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

Researchers from the University of Arizona and Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany have now created the sharpest ...